Electric advertiser.



L. MAROHAL.

ELECTRIC ADVERTISER. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1911.

1,051,245.. Patented Jan\21,1913.

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TED @IATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS MARCI-IAL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ELECTRIC ADVERTISER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1,@51,2 t5. Patented Jan. 21, 1913. Application filed August 26, 1911. Serial No. 646,273. To all whom it may concern: ing disk 9 into which the upper threaded Be it known that I, LOUIS Manor-ran, a end of the rod 7 is secured as clearly shown citizen of Belgium, residing at Chicago, in in Fig. 1. the county of Cook and State of Illinois, A clamp-device is secured to the upper have invented certain new and useful 1110- end of the casing 2 as illustrated in Fig. provements in Electric Advertisers, of 1, and consists of sections 10 and 11. These which the following is a specification, refsections 10 and 11 are hingedly connected erence being had therein to the accompany, as at 12 and are provided with bulged por ing drawing. tions 13 adapted to firmly grasp the upper This invention relates to an alarm or slgend of the float-casing 2. The free ends of nal device, designed more especially for use the clamp-device are provided with aperin connection with gasolene tanks for autotures 14 through which is adapted to extend mobiles whereby the operator will be a thumb-nut or screw 15 for securely gripwarned when the gasolene or fuel reaches a ping the clamp upon the upper end of the predetermined level, so as to enable him float casing. Each section of the clampto recharge the tank at the most available device is provided near its hinged end with place. a pair of vertically extending concave Of course, it should be understood, that grooves 16, which grooves are each provided the present invention may be used in conintermediate their ends with a channel 17. nection with any tank wherein it is desired Contacting plugs 18 are adapted to be supto sound the signal when the same should ported within the grooves 16 as illustrated become dry or otherwise empty. 'in Fig. 1, and each plug 18 comprises an in- The present device will be found very efsulated body as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4E feotual in connection with lubricating tanks having intermediate its ends, an annular carrying oil for an engine or other machine rib 19 which is adapted to fit into the chanfor it often becomes important to be notinel 17 formed in the vertical slot 16. A fied when the lubricating material has becontact plate 20 is carried by the top of the come exhausted. plugs 18 and is connected to one of the In the drawing Figure 1 is a vertical secconducting wires or elements. tion of the signal device applied to a tank. lVhen the device is connected up for op- Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the floateration, two plugs will be used as illuscasing. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View trated in Fig. 1, and a conducting wire or of the gripping clamp for supporting the element being connected to each plug. contact members. Fig. A is a transverse sechro-ugh this medium an electric circuit will tion taken on the line 4it of Fig. 1. be formed by connecting these wires up to a Referring to the drawings by numerals 1 battery or other source of electrical supply, designates the tank in which is placed a and within this circuit will also be placed float-casing 2, which casing 2 is supported a bell, light, or other annunciating means. by means of legs 3. The legs 3 are provided From the above description it will be obwith laterally extending ends 4: which convious that when the liquid within tank 1 stitute feet for allowing the float-casing to should become approximately all used up the be secured to the bottom of the tank 1. The float valve 6 will descend thereby lowering float-casing 2 is provided with a filler 5, the contact disk 8 so as to come in contact which filler is threaded into the upper end with the upper ends of the plugs 18 and thereof. A float 6 works within the float close the circuit therethrough. This being casing 2 and is connected to the lower end accomplished the bell 21 will be sounded.

What I claim is A supporting clamp comprising a pair of hinged section's, said sections being proof a rod 7, which rod carries at its upper end a circuit closing disk 8. The disk 8 is provided centrally thereof with an insulatvided with a support gripping portion, In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix means for clamping said sections together, my signature in presence of two Witnesses. sald sections be1ng provided near their hin ed ends with a pair of vertically ex LOUIS MARGHAL' 5 tending concave rooves, each groove being Witnesses:

provided interme iate its ends With a chan- ISADORE RINZBERG,

nel for the purpose specified. CLYDE B. FLEMING.

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